No novelist could concoct a believable character to match Elizabeth Warren, the strategist behind the scarily-powerful and unaccountable Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Democratic candidate for Senate. Professor Warren (she is a professor at Harvard Law School) cannot bear close scrutiny without revealing multi-layered hypocrisy and self-serving behavior. Oh, and a tendency to make herself look worse by taking far too long to confirm embarrassing truths, and looking like a weasel.

Warren is outraising incumbent Scott Brown, and is ahead in the polls. But Massachusetts voters have not yet savored the character of Warren, which embodies many local prejudices against Harvard types, the rich liberals who look down on everybody else. I hope that she continues to be herself and let voters get a sense of who she really is.

Fortunately for connoisseurs of liberal double standards, Howie Carr, Boston Herald columnist and talk radio host, is chronicling Warren's campaign. The entire column is a gem, but here is an excerpt:

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It's turning out that she's not quite the working-class heroine her worshipers in the limousine-liberal crowd thought she was.

Last week, news broke that Harvard Law had cited Warren as a minority hire - a Native American - when it was under criticism for lack of faculty diversity in 1996.

Asked Friday for proof of her Indian ancestry, Warren's said it's part of her family "lore."

She also said she couldn't "recall" if she'd ever claimed minority status when applying for a job and that she'd never known of Harvard's 1996 boast until Friday. When Brown's campaign demanded that Warren apologize for taking part in a "diversity sham," she said her campaign is searching for "evidence" of her Native American lineage.

In the special election, I knew a lot of people who voted for Scott Brown. Many people wanted to end the Kennedy dynasty by giving Ted's seat to a Republican.

Now that we've seen Scott in action, I have to say that some of my friends might vote for him a second time, but no one is talking about him much. No enthusiasm. He's been a failure, and he's running as far Left as he can right now.

Warren will win.

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posted on 04/30/2012 6:32:25 AM PDT
by ClearCase_guy
(Like Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin has become simply a stick with which to beat Whites.)

In a similar vein, I was introduced to a new guy at work. He was a bit of a stiff and was referred to by a friend as "Blue Blazer." I happened to mention to him that I was from New Jersey. He said "Oh, I went to college in New Jersey." To which I replied "Really? Which college?"

That was all he needed to know that I wasn't worth bothering with ever again.

Westminster Choir College is among the best music schools in the country. And Stevens is a first-class engineering school.

And P.U. used to be known as "College of New Jersey", which is now a pretty good school in its own right.

When I was there, one didn't make a big deal out of ones attendance. If people you didn't know asked where you went to school, you usually said, "Oh, the College of New Jersey" which was a graceful way to slide out of coming the ugly over people.

For the life of me I don’t see what’s attractive, either physically (duh) intellectually, or “leaderly” about this woman. Just another overpaid liberal mastermind who knows how you should live your life because she went to Harvard, collects $400K a year in salary, but you make too much and spend it unwisely, and if you know what’s good for you, having had the benefits of society and its infrastructure looking out for you and allowing you to work your disgusting, menial job to support your miserable family, you’ll listen to her and pay more in taxes and surrender your sovereignty to her superior intellect. She’s a female Larry Summers, except she probably has less of a failure rate, which isn’t that much of an accomplishment, since Summers has failed at every G***m thing he has ever done.

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